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The 6th e-book within the James Runcie's much-loved sequence, tailored for ITV's Grantchester which stars James Norton as Sidney Chambers. excellent for lovers of M. C. Beaton.

It is may possibly 1971 and the Cambridgeshire nation-state is bursting into summer season. Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is jogging in a bluebell wooden along with his daughter Anna and their getting old Labrador Byron once they bump into a physique. Plunged into one other homicide research, Sidney discovers a global of hippies and psychedelic crops, the place permissive behaviour turns out to conceal anything darker.

This is the 1st of many stressful secrets and techniques that Sidney reveals underneath the tranquil floor of the diocese: a celebrated photographer is accused of rape; a worthwhile non secular textual content vanishes from a Cambridge collage; the authentication of a misplaced masterpiece proves a slippery company; and Sidney's personal nephew is going missing.

Endeavouring to slot in his clerical tasks round sleuthing, Sidney keeps to mirror at the divine mysteries of affection, lifestyles and religion, whereas wrestling with the earthly difficulties of parish scandals, a innovative new secretary, the demanding situations of parenthood, and a good loss.

DCI Paul Stark discovers that the sour legacy of WWI casts a protracted shadow within the moment of this fascinating ancient secret sequence. London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been came across useless in his examine, besides a moment sufferer, a mysterious American who arrived unannounced the former night.